On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 05:47:14PM +1100, Chris Samuel wrote: > On 11/11/10 23:52, Josef Bacik wrote: > > > This feature incurs a performance penalty in larger filesystems, it is > > recommended for use with filesystems of 1 GiB or smaller. > > Maybe slightly stronger, for example: > > This feature incurs a performance penalty for larger filesystems and it > is ONLY recommended for use with filesystems of 1 GiB or smaller. > > Is it worth having a check and a warning printed if a user does > try and make a filesystem larger than 1GiB with this option ? > > Just in case they don't RTFM... > No because depending on your usage it's actually kind of usefull for anything less than 5 GiB, and you're only looking at about a 5-10% perf degredation when using it on larger filesystems. Thanks, Josef -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
